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Microsoft Will Sell 'Windows 7.' One Day, Maybe, 'Windows X'?

By David LaGesse

Posted: October 14, 2008

Maybe Microsoft is learning something. The company has finally decided, none too soon, to try simplicity with the name for its next version of Windows. A company blog post says it will be called "Windows 7."

That's after getting too cute with Windows XP (for "experience") and Vista, which was anything but a good view. Before that, there were the even less smart Windows 98 and 95. Those seemed painfully dated just months after their release.

We have to go all the way back to Windows 3.1 for a time when the company made sense with naming its most important product. Unlike Apple, which has smartly stuck with numbers for its Mac operating systems.

That leaves us to wonder. When it comes to the big version 10 in a few years, doesn't it have to be "Windows X"?

spelll check

I think he has dyslexia.. lol or just typing to fast.............. Maybe he went to school in SC since we are in the bottom 5 of the worse schools in the nation....lmao

Roxanne of SC @ Oct 25, 2009 07:54:37 AM

Needs to use spell check

4 ever of AZ, have you ever heard of spell check?

Paul Potter of KS @ Oct 25, 2009 02:11:54 AM

vista & xp 4 ever

Vista is not a problem for me It works well, and the computer has no problems. I think pople are who make new windows are just cionvenient cause they never stay with one they just want to make money!!!

4 ever of AZ @ Oct 24, 2009 20:03:50 PM

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